Selected Comparisons of Measures of Health Disparities Using Databases Containing Data Relevant to Healthy People 2010 Cancer-Related Goals
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This report was written under contract from the Surveillance Research Program (SRP) and the Applied Research Program (ARP) of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences of the National Cancer Institute, NIH. It represents the interest of these organizations in health disparities related to cancer, quantitative assessment and monitoring of these disparities and interventions to remove them. NCI Project Officers for this contract are Marsha E. Reichman, Ph.D. (SRP), Bryce Reeve, Ph.D. (ARP) and Nancy Breen, Ph.D. (ARP).
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